1000 Years of Poetry: A Millennial AnthologyIn In Memory of W.B. Yeats, his tribute to one of Britain's greatest poets, W.H. Auden said, Poetry makes nothing happen. He could not have been more wrong. This book presents a tiny fraction of the verse that poets have fashioned in the English language. |
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Page 50
... fire in my heart , the girl for whose love I am weak . The fire is fuelled by the kiss and gentle touch of this girl . In her eye gleams the light of lights ; there is nothing in the whole world so divine . Greek fire can be quenched by ...
... fire in my heart , the girl for whose love I am weak . The fire is fuelled by the kiss and gentle touch of this girl . In her eye gleams the light of lights ; there is nothing in the whole world so divine . Greek fire can be quenched by ...
Page 118
... fire was near , pretty babe all burning bright did in the air appear ; Who , scorched with excessive heat , such ... fire but I. My faultless breast the furnace is , the fuel wounding thorns ; Love is the fire , and sighs the smoke , the ...
... fire was near , pretty babe all burning bright did in the air appear ; Who , scorched with excessive heat , such ... fire but I. My faultless breast the furnace is , the fuel wounding thorns ; Love is the fire , and sighs the smoke , the ...
Page 172
... fire shall never make thee shrinke ; And Christe receive thye saule . If meate or drinke thou gavest nane , Every nighte and alle , The fire will burn thee to the bare bane ; And Christe receive thye saule . This ae nighte , this ae ...
... fire shall never make thee shrinke ; And Christe receive thye saule . If meate or drinke thou gavest nane , Every nighte and alle , The fire will burn thee to the bare bane ; And Christe receive thye saule . This ae nighte , this ae ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
Beatha an Scoláire Anon | 17 |
Young and Old Charles Kingsley | 23 |
Copyright | |
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Adlestrop ae nighte Alfred Lord Tennyson Annabel Lee Anon auld lang syne beauty became Beidh aonach amárach biby birds born in London breath bright brought summer Butter and eggs Cambridge Catholic Century Christe receive thye County Cuckoo Cynara darling died doth drink earth educated Ernest Dowson Eton eyes fair famous Fear féin an samradh fire Gerard Manley Hopkins Gin a body hath heart Heaven Ireland Irish John John-John kiss lass of Richmond lived love thee Lyonnesse married moon morn never Níl Oxford poems poet poetry pound of cheese receive thye saule rendezvous with Death Richmond Hill Robert Browning roses round samradh linn Seathrún Céitinn song soul Spanish Lady Spring stars Sweet lass thine Thomas thou Thugamar féin Trinity College verse Walter Savage Landor William Allingham William Shakespeare wind winter's written youth is pleasure